Herrick R. Goodwillie
Home Town: Oak Park, IL
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herrick R. Goodwillie, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Chaume, France, October 10, 1918. When his company was enfiladed from the right by machine-guns and could neither advance nor withdraw, Sergeant Goodwillie volunteered to go for assistance, after several runners had been killed in similar attempts. Crawling back through heavy machine-gun fire, he reached the trench mortar battery, guided them forward, and himself operated one of the mortars which knocked out the enemy machine-gun nest, saving his company.
